What's the point of watching a Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford?

I agree, but, if you’re gonna do a prequel, you can’t magically de-age the man.

sure you can, just cover his face with cgi.
worked for arnold in the new terminator sequel.

that will not help with his stale halfcorpse acting though.

Whether it’s self confidence or arrogance can only be judged by the end results. It’s a tall order for whoever get’s the role. It will require some damned fine acting, directing and a top notch screenplay to distract me from the looming memory of Ford, which will smother any mediocre or even “above average” production.

I thought Chris Pine did a pretty good job of doing a younger version of whatshisname that was the original Captain Kirk in Star Trek.

It’s not as if it can’t be done.

But when people were watching Chris Pine, I don’t think a lot of Star Trek fans were missing Shatner that much. The absence of Ford is going to be a lot more noticeable

Err, Batman anyone?

You’re missing my point, Han Solo has been defined by only one person and it’s memorable because of Ford’s personality. Batman is the type of character that can be portrayed by many actors, Batman already has a strong backstory.

@rockfan don’t confuse Ford’s “acting” in Star Wars with his better presence in Indiana Jones. He didn’t do much on Star Wars other than drag Chewie in and out of predicaments, and get stuck in that wall.

And Han Solo was not exactly a well defined character. There just hasn’t been an opportunity for someone else to play the role.

The reason for it is quite simple; Hollywood hardly has creativity to make new movies, so they milk successful existing series for as much money as they can squeeze from them.

Oh they have the creativity.
They just do not have the will, because explosions, nostalgia trips, established brands and name recognition equals easy money.

Get over the man crush & move on then.